OFFERINGS - 1989

OFFERINGS - 1989
Following the slasher craze movies of the late 70's and 80's this is an extremely low budget and entertaining made-for-drive-in movie. This movie starts out the year 1978 the main character, the typical abused out cast in a small suburb, falls into a well in the town square after being taunted by a group of bullies.
So 10 years later after being in the mental hospital for killing his mother and eating her corpse, he escaped to seek revenge.



The opening of this movie really looked like 1978, featuring a white trash movie in her kitchen filled with 70's gaudy wall paper, dressed in a K mart bathrobe and curlers, purposely putting cigarette buds into her son's scrambled eggs. Rest of the movie we see a lot big haired 80's girls screaming and having sex with their boyfriends in typical suburban homes, other than the bad acting this movie is not that different than some of the other slasher films of the 80's it even had a soundtrack that resembled the "Halloween" theme.

What's missing is that "Offerings" did not feature any actors that later become stars like some of the other slasher flicks. You won't see the before they become stars from the cast of "Friends" or "Gilmore Girls" here, just a bunch of unknowns who stayed that way.




the violent murders and some of the "shock" images are predictable from the nurse getting a syringe through her skull all the way to the end where the psycho killer is jump back up from being shot 5 times, to give you that one last scream. I think it's the nostalgic I feel about the 1980's attract me more about "Offerings" than anything else, what was missing was a loud soundtrack with electronic drumbeats to complete the package.